Definition of Green

1.a. Having the color of grass when fresh and growing; resembling that color of the solar spectrum which is between the yellow and the blue; verdant; emerald.

2.n. The color of growing plants; the color of the solar spectrum intermediate between the yellow and the blue.

3.v. t. To make green.

4.v. i. To become or grow green.

Definition of Green

1. Proper noun. (surname common English from=Middle English) ¹

2. Adjective. Having green as its color. ¹

3. Adjective. Sickly, unwell. ¹

4. Adjective. Inexperienced. ¹

5. Adjective. Environmentally friendly. ¹

6. Adjective. (figuratively) Overcome with envy. ¹

7. Adjective. (cricket) Describing a pitch which, even if there is no visible grass, still contains a significant amount of moisture ¹

8. Adjective. (dated) Of bacon or similar smallgoods, unprocessed, raw, unsmoked; not smoked or spiced.“unsmoked bacon used to be called green bacon, though the term is losing currency” [ Delia Online: Bacon, including gammon] ¹

9. Adjective. Unripe, said of certain fruits that change color when they ripen. ¹

10. Adjective. (context: wine) Of wine, high or too high in acidity. ¹

11. Adjective. Of freshly cut wood or lumber that has not been dried, containing moisture and therefore relatively more flexible or springy. ¹

12. Adjective. Naïve or unaware of obvious facts. ¹

13. Noun. The colour of growing foliage, as well as other plant cells containing chlorophyll; the colour between yellow and blue in the visible spectrum; one of the primary additive colour for transmitted light; the colour obtained by subtracting red and blue from white light using cyan and yellow filters. ¹

14. Noun. (politics sometimes capitalised) A member of a green party; an environmentalist. ¹

15. Noun. (golf) A putting green, the part of a golf course near the hole. ¹

16. Noun. (context: bowls) The surface upon which bowls is played. ¹

17. Noun. (context: snooker) One of the colour balls used in snooker with a value of 3 points. ¹

18. Noun. (British) a public patch of land in the middle of a settlement. ¹

Definition of Green

Medical Definition of Green

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1. Having the colour of grass when fresh and growing; resembling that colour of the solar spectrum which is between the yellow and the blue; verdant; emerald.
2. Having a sickly colour; wan. "To look so green and pale." (Shak)
3. Full of life aud vigor; fresh and vigorous; new; recent; as, a green manhood; a green wound. "As valid against such an old and beneficent government as against . . . The greenest usurpation." (Burke)
4. Not ripe; immature; not fully grown or ripened; as, green fruit, corn, vegetables, etc.
5. Not roasted; half raw. "We say the meat is green when half roasted." (L. Watts)
6. Immature in age or experience; young; raw; not trained; awkward; as, green in years or judgment. "I might be angry with the officious zeal which supposes that its green conceptions can instruct my gray hairs." (Sir W. Scott)
7. Not seasoned; not dry; containing its natural juices; as, green wood, timber, etc.
Green brier, a common European woodpecker (Picus viridis); called also yaffle.
Origin: OE. Grene, AS. Gr?ne; akin to D. Groen, OS. Gr?ni, OHG. Gruoni, G. Gr?n, Dan. & Sw. Gr?n, Icel. Gr?nn; fr. The root of E. Grow. See Grow.
1. The colour of growing plants; the colour of the solar spectrum intermediate between the yellow and the blue.
2. A grassy plain or plat; a piece of ground covered with verdant herbage; as, the village green. "O'er the smooth enameled green." (Milton)
3. Fresh leaves or branches of trees or other plants; wreaths; usually in the plural. "In that soft season when descending showers Call forth the greens, and wake the rising flowers." (Pope)
4. Leaves and stems of young plants, as spinach, beets, etc, which in their green state are boiled for food.
5. Any substance or pigment of a green colour.
Alkali green, a green pigment, consisting essentially of a hydrous arsenite of copper; called also Swedish green. It may enter into various pigments called parrot green, pickel green, Brunswick green, nereid green, or emerald green.
Source: Websters Dictionary
(01 Mar 1998)

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Literary usage of Green

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1.Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1884)"One general exception, however, should be noted; viz., that shallow water near
shore is usually green, even in warm seas, on account of the large amount of ..."

2.Report by Tasmania Dept. of Mines (1897)"The extinction angle is as high as 37', and the mineral often encloses crystals
of apatite, a yellowish green, b yellowish, С green. ..."